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Why must everything be tested can't we just know some things? Can we not infer from times in our life where we did not know love now having known love and to have lost it, it is still better to have known and lost?

Actually I think you could argue that at one point many people have not known love yet sought it out. Once they found that love there were many who lost it and yet they did not choose to live without love but sought it out once again. Therefore...

I never said it wasn't true or even that one couldn't come to understand each perspective from the other.Yet, still there is that whole "never" part. I would hope that none have to actually live with such a "never", but it does preclude the experience (i.e. "testing") of the other state and vis versa.

Here's an interesting thought. People in either of these states may look at the other (at various times) both in longing and in self-condolence..."At least I loved"/"Oh, that I'd never loved at all!" .... "Would that I'd loved just once!"/"At least I've never lost a love"